Summary
Luiz Sales is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CEO with 11+ years building telecom-focused products and startups from São Paulo. He founded and led Agencia56k and currently heads Pxtalk, bringing hands-on engineering experience in PBX-IP, integrations and product development. An active community builder, Luiz has been a Techstars Startup Weekend facilitator, São Paulo Tech Week curator, and mentor/juror at major Brazilian events like Campus Party and Hackathons. He served in regional startup leadership roles including ambassador for the Associação Brasileira de Startups and president of ACE-Matão, bridging local ecosystems with global acceleration programs such as Google for Startups. Passionate about open-source and developer communities, he blends technical depth with event-driven community growth to accelerate early-stage teams. An outcome-focused leader, he pairs practical engineering roots dating back to early developer roles with strategic startup scaling and ecosystem development.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
TI, Tecnologia, TI, Tecnologia at Anhanguera Educacional
Portuguese, English